Guest Trevor Posted December 8, 2004 Report Posted December 8, 2004 Hi All, If you are thinking of getting your own reg then don't bother looking at all the sites selling them, as all they do is sell the no plates they have on the dvla web site then add their chunk of cash mine cost Quote
Guest blatters Posted December 8, 2004 Report Posted December 8, 2004 Agreed, my Dad recd a letter addressed to my Mum from a private registration firm explaining that a rare opportunity had arisen for her to acquire a plate with her initials on it (cost approx Quote
GSMGuy Posted December 8, 2004 Report Posted December 8, 2004 I have a private plate on my Gal - hides it's age, and also happens to spell my name... Paid Quote
jkspoff Posted December 11, 2004 Report Posted December 11, 2004 Mr T, where did you get these and how easy was it to do the chrome bits ? I was thinking of getting some for mine, did you go to Ford ? and do the old panels come off easily ?? Is it a one spanner job (Haynes equivalent !) ? Quote
GSMGuy Posted December 11, 2004 Report Posted December 11, 2004 Mr T, where did you get these and how easy was it to do the chrome bits ? I was thinking of getting some for mine, did you go to Ford ? and do the old panels come off easily ?? Is it a one spanner job (Haynes equivalent !) ? I'd like to know this as well... Mike Quote
Guest tootall Posted January 2, 2005 Report Posted January 2, 2005 Two plates spring to mind... about 15 years ago I was returning from Le Mans and saw a Ferrari 288GTO (their super-spunkiest at the time) with BEG 4 1T as the plate... ironically, as the driver probably didn't have to beg at all... a 4x4 drives around my town with a woman at the wheel... reg?? N0 NIX... Whether she goes commando or not, I can't say... nor will I be finding out, as she's a mid-50s munter!! Why is it never a stunner??? :D Maybe my wife can answer that last one - with a good clip round the ear, probably Quote
_dg Posted January 2, 2005 Report Posted January 2, 2005 I recently noticed 'RUBBISH' on a 4x4 belonging to the owner of a scrap yard. Its the best one I've seen Quote
katman Posted January 3, 2005 Report Posted January 3, 2005 Also - saw 80NKA on a Ferrari 360 convertible yesterday... Mate of mine had a SMART car with the registration "X 70 NKA" Ex Tonka :-) Wasnt too pleased the night a group of drunken youbs decided it was a Tonka Toy and rolled it down his road though :-( Keith Quote
Richmond Posted January 4, 2005 Report Posted January 4, 2005 Also - saw 80NKA on a Ferrari 360 convertible yesterday... Mate of mine had a SMART car with the registration "X 70 NKA" Ex Tonka :-) Is it just me, or are these number plates which require that '4' be read as 'A' or '7' as 'T', and spaces ignored or inserted, a bit pointless? It's lost on me; I'd never have guessed that 'X 70 NKA' meant 'ex Tonka'. Mind you, now I know, I'll be rolling around the car with laughter so much whenever I see one that I'll crash and have to buy 'P R4T'. Quote
Guest neil_wiles Posted January 4, 2005 Report Posted January 4, 2005 The very best one I saw recently on a BMW X5 black with black windows and a woman driver was.......... PR02ZAC Its mine, all mine, nobody else can have them, Yehhaaa !!!!!!!!! Quote
Ian in Northampton Posted January 4, 2005 Report Posted January 4, 2005 One of the cleverer ones that caught my eye was when N reg first came out: N 15 4 NEW Quote
Richmond Posted January 4, 2005 Report Posted January 4, 2005 Presumably there are loads like N 15 4 NEW; W 15 4 WHY, for example. Quote
Ivor_E_Tower Posted January 4, 2005 Report Posted January 4, 2005 Unfortunately I cannot get I 15 4 IVOR or 11541 VOR :lol: Not that I'd want to. And DVLA don't have any plates ending in....1 VOR which is discrimination against the Welsh! Quote
Ian in Northampton Posted January 4, 2005 Report Posted January 4, 2005 Richmond: yeah but ("no but, yeah but, no but, yeah but...."): what intrigued me, and the entire point of the plate, was that it was on a car that was brand new N registered - so it was N registered, and it was New. Capice? :lol: Quote
Richmond Posted January 4, 2005 Report Posted January 4, 2005 Richmond: yeah but ("no but, yeah but, no but, yeah but...."): what intrigued me, and the entire point of the plate, was that it was on a car that was brand new N registered - so it was N registered, and it was New. Capice? :lol: Got it, thank you. This number plate business is indeed multilayered. What did the owner of N 15 4 NEW do after a couple of weeks, 'though? O 15 4 OLD was presumably not issued. Perhaps s/he joined the foreign office, was posted abroad and got U 15 4 USE(D) or nipped out and bought the timeless C 15 4 CAR. Quote
Guest blatters Posted January 4, 2005 Report Posted January 4, 2005 Guy at my previous place of work had the following on his Escort: B1 4 WAT As someone that tries to avoid going with the crowd it appealed to me. Blatters Quote
Ian in Northampton Posted January 4, 2005 Report Posted January 4, 2005 Richmond: and there, I think, you've touched upon the inherent superficiality and pointlessness of personalised plates. It's always occurred to me as strange that, in the USA - or in Texas at least - you can choose any license plate you want so long as it's proper numbers and letters, isn't more than 6 (or 7) characters and isn't rude: you pay around $40 a year for it - but no-one bothers much. To me, personalised plates are all about 'look at me - I have waaaaaaay more money than sense'. But I guess that's just the puritan in me... Quote
Richmond Posted January 4, 2005 Report Posted January 4, 2005 Guy at my previous place of work had the following on his Escort: B1 4 WAT As someone that tries to avoid going with the crowd it appealed to me. Blatters Sorry, you'll have to explain it to me. Be one for what? Buy for what? Before what? Beef or what (on a butcher's van)? Before Watt (seems implausible)? Buy a what? Buy a Watt (on an electricity board van)? I'm quite good at crosswords, but I can't get the hang of these number plates at all. Quote
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